Help! Note does not play!
I have written a piece with 5 voices for my choir, and I want to produce mp3 files for rehearsals. Everything works fine, except notes above high A in the base clef (all above the top staff line) are not played. There is simply no sound! The behaviour is the same whether I let MuseScore play, or I enter notes, or if I create the mp3 file.
I'm a fairly new user of MuseScore, and I believe I've seen a menu where the different voice ranges can be defined, but I'm currently quite unable to find it!
If you're interested, check the attached MS2 file: Bruremarsj-Førde.mscz
The problem will be shown just below the 'A1' rehearsal mark.
Thanks for helping!
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Changing the clef just for playing DOES NOT HELP!
In reply to Changing the clef just for by ingeva
of course not, it is still the same pitch and still the same instrument
The Sound you picked for voice Bass, Intrument Contrabass, simply doesn't have samples for notes that high. Contrabass us using a bass cleff 8vb, so an octave lower.
Also the not just before that had playback sitched off.
Better use a violonchello, maybe?
It plays fine here.
Are you using the latest version of the default soundfont???
The range problems in the Contrabass instrument were fixed in May last year.
You can find it here........
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7cZM0RQwkwST2tiWWFiaTN0WFE
In reply to It plays fine here. Are you by ChurchOrganist
But that isn't in 2.0.2, or is it? Because I couldn't here it either
In reply to But that isn't in 2.0.2, or by Jojo-Schmitz
Well if you don't upgrade when given the opportunity.........
In reply to Well if you don't upgrade by ChurchOrganist
BTW, have you submitted a pull request or taken other steps to make sure the latest version of FluidR3Mono is packaged with 2.0.3?
In reply to BTW, have you submitted a by Isaac Weiss
I don't submit pull requests because each time I do it apparently has a severe impact on the size of the repository.
Which is why they are available separately from Google Drive.
New versions are always announced in the Soundfont Forum.
In reply to I don't submit pull requests by ChurchOrganist
One Pr for inclusion in 2.0.3 should be ok though I think. But not one for every version of your sounding.
Edit: I'll do the PR, as agreed with lasconic on IRC, see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2492
If you have some last minute changes, speak up now ;-)
In reply to Well if you don't upgrade by ChurchOrganist
I did upgrade to the latest version, 2.0.2 and could not hear those notes.
And Ias far as I know so far 2.0.3 won't include a newer soundfont
In reply to I did upgrade to the latest by Jojo-Schmitz
But you obviously haven't upgraded your default soundfont which has had numerous fixes and improvements since the version included in 2.0.2 including fixing the contrabass range.
In reply to But you obviously haven't by ChurchOrganist
True. I see though that your soundfont fix for contrabass in 2.109, and 2.110 is included in 2.0.2, so I don't really underrstand why I could not hear that note?
Edit, this is a Bb3, 2.109 allegedly extended range to A5, but still I can't hear it in the SF that Comes with 2.0.2
I can with the latest version or the SF though, and indeed up to A5
And as per the Readme.md it is 2.207 in my sounds Folder, so that'd explain it, I'm puzzled though why it isn't 2.110, seems something has gone wrong during install?
Ah! The master branch was updated (7d742599), but that commit apparently hadn't been cherry-picked into the 2.0.2 branch, or rather it had been reverted in 5b04c756
If you can't get the sound to play with the contrabass soundfont, just use a different soundfont. If you're just making MP3 files for the individual parts, it shouldn't matter what soundfont you use.
Also, the menu to define voice ranges is found by right-clicking the instrument name in front of the staff and looking at the bottom of the window that opens. However, changing these don't affect playback, just whether or not Musescore displays certain notes as yellow/red for difficult/impossible notes.